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Contents
국문초록 8
ABSTRACT 10
Ⅰ. Introduction 12
Ⅱ. Objectives 14
Ⅲ. Materials and Methods 15
1. Study participants 15
2. Methods 16
3. Serum VZV IgG and IgM 16
4. Pain score and neuropathic pain components 17
5. Replacement values for data processing 18
6. Statistical analysis 19
Ⅳ. Results 20
Ⅴ. Discussion 25
Ⅵ. Conclusion 30
References 31
Table 1. Clinical findings of the patients group 20
Table 2. The number of patients testing positive for VZV IgG and IgM over the course of time 22
Table 3. Spearman correlation analysis between VZV IgG and IgM titers and VAS, DN4, PD 22
Table 4. Linear regression analysis with VAS, DN4 and PD as dependent variables 23
Table 5. Analysis of correlation between NPG (NPG=1) and other factors (Spearman method) 24
Figure 1. Flow diagram of the study 16
Figure 2. The proportion of patients with positive VZV IgG and VZV IgM titers according to the timming of the test 21